Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-08-20

hull' T. ~ w ynett, f.. G0del, Peoria; Rev.
W imam NJ. Collins, Galesburg, H.; F.
Adams, Fairbury, H.; - Troville,
Fekln, ILL.,; W. H. Lott, Elmwood, Ill. !;
Ada II. Webster, Mrs. William Allen, Mrs.
Vallejo and William Stevens, Peoria; Noah
Canton, H.; Melville Smith,
Matamora, Ill; Mrs. Zimmerman, George
A. Smith, Rose Murphy, three-year-old
Restract Avoca, Miss Emma Stevens and
Miss Stevens, Peoria; Michael Regan,
N. Y; William Craig, Cuba,
ILL.,; Henry Helken, Pekin, Ill: Miss Voor-
hees, Mrs. j. NJ. Clay, Eureka; James D.
Richards, Franklin, Neb.; S. r. Braes,
Jesse Meek, Eureka; Mrs. w. G. Erickson,
Peoria; Evaline Caruthers, - Evans,
Marshall, Ia. Mrs. Paten NJ. Cress, WASH
ington, H.; Mrs DIR. Duchette, Forest, H.;
Mrs. Archie Cresswell, Peoria; Miss Min
ME Alien, N. II. Paers Bushnell, H.; Miss
Eva Alter and Mrs. SnedalEer.
There are also among the killed an un-
known man; large woman with gray
hair, gray dress, and ticket from Peoria;
woman with black hair babe one year
old; little girl two years old with pm
marked "Darling;n an unknown child;
girl, no mark; unknown lady and her child;
lady with watch, unknown; girl; large
heavy man; a young man; child boy; lady
dressed in black; lady in gray dress; short
heavy man, badly crushed, and a young
man in striped shirt.
LIST OF INJURED.
Mr.. II. W. McFadden, of McFadden Il
Co., Havana, ILL.,, grain dealers, was
passenger in the rear sleeper, he gives
graphic account Of the accident, which is
substantially the same as Mr.. Whites
statement and estimates the loss at l75
persons.
The following is a complete list Of the
persons taken from tho wreck: Mr.. and
Mrs. +. A. Parker, Mrs. Emma Region and
son, John Frye, badly; II. l.. Ogden, Gray
mound, slightly; Florence Boucher, Bayard,
Ia, Patrick Bradley, Gilman, H., slightly;
Sophia Pauline, slightly; c. NJ. Young and
c. W, Swank, West Jersey, slightly;
Thomas Trimmer, Park Ridge, leg broken
Theodore Godel, Peoria, badly; Mr.. and
Chcllow, Glassford, ILL.,, slightly; A. j. Mrs.
Miller, of Oneida, H., lost a foot; Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Zimmerman, Peoria, serious
ly; Mr., and Mrs. Neal, slightly; their baby
was killed: Abby Edmonds, Disco, H.,
slightly; DR.. Il. 2. Hazen and wife,
Madison, Ia, slightly, II. A. Bond,
Colchester, H., badly; John Dech-
man, Peoria, ILL.,, will lose foot y;
Mr.. Thomas NJ. Covoy, Peoria, mortally;
j. W, Grant, Peoria, badly; Miss Emma
Alter, West Point, Ia, badly; Mrs H. j.
Thorne, Rush, H., slightly; Mary Morris,
slightly; e. f. French, slightly; Eaton
Walters, slightly; Otto johnson, Burling-
ton, Ia, slightly; Mrs, r. H. Clark, Roots
town, O., mortally; G. w. Cress, Washing
ton, mortally; Eliza Cress, dead; j. Cress,
husband of Eliza, both of Peoria, slightly;
Madge l.. Harris, broken leg; Arthur Nc
Carthy, Eureka, H., both eyes put out;
Mrs. Meek, Eureka, dead; David Crawford,
Hilton, slightly; A. f. Magee, Laharp,
slightly; Mrs. S. II. Borden, Tonica, slight
ly. William Forbes, Elmwood slightly;
Elizabeth Sellers, Peoria, slightly; Mrs,
Oliver Walters, Peoria, bruised on head
H. Abraham, Peoria, badly; Adam Scham'
berger, Peoria, slightly; S. i. Delsley,
Deer Creek, H., slightly; Patton Cress,
Washington, slightly; j. b. Kelley, Peoria,
bruised badly; Daniel Rock, Rosefield
slightly; c. \. Gregg, Danville, Ia, slight
ly; Mrs. c. +. Allen, Galesburg, slightly
Minnie Vaugndaes, Peoria, leg broken;
Calvin Davis, Peoria, slig htly; May Laws
Eureka, ILL.,, head fractured an d can't live
C. II. Carter, Burlington, Ia, slightly; II
b. Lawrence, Burlington, Ia, slightly
Frank Taylor, Macomb, leg broken il
two places: John McMastcrs, Peoria slight
ly: Mrs Kellogg, fremont, seriously; Mrs
Isaac Brady, Morrison, not expected tc
live; Catherine Lott, Peoria, badly; j. W
Stearns, Green Valley, slightly; Johr
Sheen, Walnut Grove, slightly. Six out Of
the thirteen that started from Eureka are
dead. Mrs. Brown, of Breeds station
badly hurt; l.. p. Bedell, Canton; Dr. c
Aeuringer, of Detroit Ed Brown, Peoria
Isaac Broody, of Morrison, and Sarah May
Eureka, very seriously hurt; DR.. f. 2
Hazen and wife, Miss Alter, Peoria; George
j. Smith, Peoria, very seriouly wounded
George A. Lott, Toulon, H., ankle badly
hurt and left leg broken; George W
Swank, Elmwood, not seriously hurt; DaviC
Crawford, Anna Kellogg, of fremont, anc
Win Forbes, are not expected to live
FOREST, H., Aug, H.-Seventy-tive killed
and three hundred injured, perhaps score
of them fatally, is the appalling record O.
the disaster, Before daylight there wert
sixty-fve bodies laid out on the prairie, anc
forty or fifty wounded were lying undel
some bushes not far away. Some of th'
latter died while being lifted upon flat-car;
wreck hundreds of men were searching FOL
more victims, and shortly after daylgh
four more unreCognizable masses Of human
flesh and tattered clothing were found deel
in the ruins. The disaster occurred jus
before midnight.
In the doomed train were sixteen cars, a.
but one carrying passengers, and the who'll
drawn by two engines. The train had lei
Peoria about five o'clock, carrying NOR
than 600 excursionists bound for Niagar
Falls. Two miles east of this village wa
little trestlc on fire, caught from tn
burning prairie, no longer than fifteen fee
and above the ditch no more than six feet
This little culvert's destruction well mig
caused the destruction Of the entire tram
The culvert safely bore the first engine
but the wheels of itstendcr were caught L
the sinking rails and frightiul wrec
ensued. Car after car leaped the marrow
chasm and telescopcd tho coaches preced
ing. The great weight and impetus OF tn
half-doscn Pullman sloepers drove thel
huge frames with terrible force against tn
chair cars and day coaches ahead of them
| Three cars were so telescoped togethe
that il was almost impossible to tell tn
ruins of one from those of another. On
coach entered another, splitting 1t ant
showing all the seats and passengers into
mass in the far end, leaving the hoor a
clean as if swept by knife.
The first sleeper stopped with its for
ward trucks in the ill-fated culvert, like it
fellows, unharmed. But the nine passen
ger cars and the baggage car were heape'
in a mass of kindling wood. In jumpin
the culvert three or four of the cars LEI
their trucks buried in the embankment
one under another, to depth Of eight feet
The car bodies left the trucks and hurle
themselves against the cars preceding.
The disaster came absolutely withou
warning. Even the engineer OF the mrs
locomotive, Dave Sutherland, had no or
portunity to apply the brakes before reach
ing the culvert, under which the flames ha
crept almost unobserved. The engineer
the second locomotive, Edward McClintocR
was killed with his hand on the trottle
His body was crushed, and his head is Still
under the engine.
Abner Applegroen, his fireman, says n
fire was seen in the culvert. The first h
knew of the disaster there was sort OF
shock and roar which he could not under
stand. and he suddenly found himsel
/ 49, L. Gxifnnr l1rin